Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness - Features

Return to the Age of Chaos and wage war against live Orc and Human opponents with the same skill and fearless intensity you lived and breathed in your Warcraft II Career. Warcraft II Battle.net Edition brings you real-time combat with up to eight players from around the globe. Put your skills to the ultimate test in the most epic Warcraft II? Battles ever.

The All-new version of the legendary strategy game, including new Battle.net multiplayer mode and all 28 original single-player scenarios.

Intense Internet Competition

Challenge players worldwide with FREEaccess to Blizzard’s Battle.net gaming service. Up to eight players supported forhead-to-head, allied or team play. Enhanced features include global player rankings, tournaments and challenge ladders.

Over 100 New Battlefields

Continue the struggle for the dominationof Azeroth across move than 100 new and updated multiplayer maps.

Improved Combat Controls

Command your armies with newfound ease.Enhancements include:

Hot-key unit groupings

Improved auto-commands

Instant event-alert centering

Shared vision

Additional Features

Multi-player support for as many as 8 players via Battle.Net or IPX network

Blizzard’s spawning technology that allows up to eight players to compete over Battle.net by installing multiple copies from the original CD-ROM.

Automatic map passing over Battle.net

Implementation of Top vs. Bottom multi-player template

Shared Vision in multi-player games

Ability to /Whisper in and out of games

Improved game set-up, game options, dropping of players and inclusion of Battle.net chat

Setting of game speed before the game starts that cannot be switched back and forth during game play.

Incorporation of the 3 Pauses per player / per game rule

Assigning and selection of Groups through # keys

Ability to choose Random starting race, resources and tileset.

Ability to set Latency Tolerance within games

Attack Move command will now function correctly

Patrol command now sends units to the selected location rather than stopping after any contact

Set maps and game parameters for Ladder Games

Scroll Speed fixed on faster computers

Town Hall / Great Hall is required as the first building in your technology tree

Ctrl+click or double-click will select closest 9 units of that type currently on the screen

Space bar centers the map on last 8 transmissions (sequential)

Current food displayed along with gold/oil/lumber

Maintained compatibility with the DOS version of Warcraft II via local area network or modem

Unit limit raised from 600 to 1200 for Enhanced games

Added upper limit of 200 food for each player, like StarCraft

Mining out an oil rig completely no longer returns a small amount of lumber and gold to the player.